With every shared meal, volunteering shift and fundraising project, Tin Hta Nu is determined to challenge stereotypes and show how much refugees contribute to their communities.
Before migrating from Myanmar as a political refugee in 1991, she saw friends and colleagues detained and even killed for their work in the pro-democracy movement.
Ms Hta Nu founded The Mid North Coast Refugee Support Group with her friends in an effort to help those adapting to a new country, a challenge she understands all too well. Her passion has been using fresh produce from her garden to make meals for the homeless and disadvantaged, and she won the senior citizen Living Treasure award on Australia Day this year.
"It's a stereotypical belief that if a white man marries an Asian or African lady, that lady is a mail-order bride." "Aung San Suu Kyi started the [political party] National League for Democracy and we were all invited to work together," Ms Hta Nu said."So then of course I was wanted," Ms Hta Nu said.
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